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Kohler: Don’t flatter yourself, AFR

Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler responds to claims the site is plagiarising from the Fin Review by publishing article extracts: we aren’t, he says, and no-one’s reading them, anyway.

Don Argus and his journo mates club

Crikey founder Stephen Mayne cuts the heart of outgoing BHP-Billiton’s chairman Don Argus’ sycophantic relationship with Melbourne’s business columnists.

Shorting ban causes bedlam as Macquarie recovers again

The remarkable decision by ASIC yesterday to ban all short-selling for 30 days caused a delay in the opening of trade this morning as investors scrambled to work out what it all meant, writes Stephen Mayne.